amnesia

Example Sentences

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The former boxer George Foreman’s late-20th-century popularity as a television pitchman for a line of cooking products has enabled a collective amnesia.

From New York Times

In “The Face of a Stranger,” readers meet William Monk, a police officer who is stricken with amnesia and whose hunt for villains reveals hints to his past identity.

From Washington Post

So Sorenson tried to suppress the physical and psychological damage she had suffered through what sexual violence counselors later told her was traumatic amnesia.

From Science Magazine

So complete was this collective amnesia that today, among people like Stefanie, born decades after the war, the origins of the monument, and the Nazi presence in Switzerland, were a revelation.

From BBC

Henning Melber, a political scientist who has written extensively about German colonialism, said that criticism of the film shouldn’t distract from its potential role in remedying what he described as Germany’s “colonial amnesia.”

From New York Times